Currently her virtual ranking is 26 and has 1790 points. If she gets to R3 (her draw pasted above) she will face most probably Serena who is out of her reach. Getting to R3 she will get another 155 points (she will have 1945 points). That means she will have as many points as 25th Petrova and 24th Cetkovska now have and can be either 24, 25 or 26. German requirement is that you have to be in top24 during the cut-off which is after RG. Would that be the most ridiculous situation in WTA history?

P.s. of course Cetkovska would have to lose to Johansson and Petrova lose to Scheepers in R2.

Why do they have that additional requirement. Don't they want more athletes at the olympics???

The policy in Germany is that only competitive athletes are send to the Olympic games. That means athletes who are able to get into the top8 of a competition (typical final round of a swimming or track discipline) or the QF of a knock-out tournament.

The policy in Germany is that only competitive athletes are send to the Olympic games. That means athletes who are able to get into the top8 of a competition (typical final round of a swimming or track discipline) or the QF of a knock-out tournament.

And our NOC is smart enough to know that non-Top-24 players never have a chance to reach the QF. OK we even had two unseeded Germans in a Grandslam-SF last year but that's a completely different story.